Epswad4 — Beware of This Adware

Posted in Uncategorized. Written by admin on September 15th, 2009

I recently had an unpleasant experience with the adware program Epswad4. However, before I get too far into my tale, I’d like to share a couple terms with you and what they mean. The first term is adware. Adware is a program written specifically to send advertisements to you. These advertisements usually take the form of pop-ups, but can take other forms as well. Adware programs can gather information on your browsing habits or even personal information then pass it on to a remote server. The second term is rootkit. Basically, a rootkit is a program that digs into the registry, or root, of Windows and makes itself hard to remove– as well as causing computer problems.

I don’t know how I got infected with Epswad4. All I know is one day pornographic pop-ups appeared on my computer. I tried getting offline in hopes that would make them stop, but I still got these pornographic pop-ups.

I had to find out why this was happening, so I started doing some research. I found out that Epswad4 can cause your computer to slow down, create conflicts, hardware crashes, and complete system crashes. I also found out it records your online surfing activities and sends them to a remove server.

I tried uninstalling Epswad4 via add/remove programs, but when I rebooted it was back. I found out this is because Epswad4 is a rootkit, and if you have a rootkit it will keep reinstalling itself unless all of it is removed.

I discovered that I needed an anti-spyware program so I started looking for one that would remove Epswad4. I soon discovered that most anti-spyware programs only remove 80-90% of the infection, which would leave you still infected if you have a rootkit. That wasn’t good enough for me so I kept looking.

Then I found http://www.spyzooka.com/spyware-removal-guarantee.htm. That was exactly what I was looking for. A program that gives you a 100% removal guarantee. It gets better. Not only do you get the 100% removal guarantee, but with SpyZooka on your computer you are protected from future infections.